NFTs How Artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s First Joint NFT Series Reimagines American Landscapes With A.I. 'Land Sea and Sky' features collages of photographs generated by Stable Diffusion. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 13, 2023
Art & Tech The FBI’s New Mobile App Helps Identify and Locate Stolen Art—and You Can Report Tips The app offers access to the FBI’s stolen art database. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 12, 2023
On View Treasures From the Vatican, Including a 16th-Century Tapestry of Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper,’ Get a Rare Showing in Italy The tapestry, which rarely leaves the Holy See, is now exhibited at the Palace of Venaria. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 11, 2023
On View See Inside Artist Filip Custic’s First Solo Show in Tokyo, Where His ‘Super-Bionic’ Sculptures Meld the Body and Technology "Human Product" is on view at Parco Museum in Tokyo through April 24. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 11, 2023
Archaeology & History An Australian Man Using a Budget Metal Detector Discovered a 10-Pound Chunk of Gold Worth $160,000 'I was just gobsmacked,' said the prospector who bought the rock from the metal detectorist. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 11, 2023
Archaeology & History A 1,400-Year-Old Mural of Two-Faced Men Bearing Hummingbirds Has Just Been Excavated in Peru Archeologists have described the mural as unlike any other in South America. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 10, 2023
Crime How a Drawing of Donald Trump at His Arraignment Became the First Courtroom Sketch to Cover ‘The New Yorker’ The sketch has also gone viral on Twitter. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 7, 2023
On View An Exhibition of Doodles by Renaissance Masters and Modern Artists Brings Idle Scribblings From the Margins to the Center 'Gribouillage / Scarabocchio,' featuring six centuries' worth of idle sketches, is on view through April 30. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 7, 2023
Art History Was the Eiffel Tower on Van Gogh’s Mind as He Painted ‘Starry Night’? An Art Historian Believes So He posits that the work was inspired by the light show during the unveiling of the Paris monument in 1899. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 6, 2023
Style Digital Dreamscape Artist Charlotte Taylor Trades Architecture for NFTs for Italian Luxury Brand Loro Piana With an eye toward the ecology, the house is combining blockchain technology and art with its high-end wool offerings. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 6, 2023
NFTs Elon Musk Has Inexplicably Changed Twitter’s Logo to That of Dogecoin’s, Causing the Joke Cryptocurrency to Spike in Value Twitter replaced its bird icon with Dogecoin's dog and no one really knows why. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 6, 2023
Archaeology & History An 1,800-Year-Old Venus Statuette Was Discovered In a Roman-Era Garbage Dump in France The figure was found alongside other artifacts including coins and pottery fragments. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 6, 2023
Art & Exhibitions The National Gallery of Victoria Has Announced Its 2023 Triennial Lineup, Featuring Three Robot Dogs Programmed to Paint Agnieszka Pilat's robot dogs will paint inside a white cube for four months. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 5, 2023
Crime An Artist Lost Hundreds of Digital Artworks When His Laptop Was Stolen. He’s Now Offering a Reward of $1.2 Million for Its Safe Return It's a cruel irony for an artist whose work frequently focuses on money and theft. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 4, 2023
NFTs Damien Hirst Is No Longer Making His Signature Spin Paintings. Instead, He’s Unveiled a New A.I. Generator So You Can Make Them Yourself Artworks generated by the platform can be purchased as a physical piece, an NFT, or both. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 3, 2023